Ribbon Blockchain is a healthcare incentives platform that aims to modify behaviour through
rewardable tasks. Ribbon channels donated, pledged or sponsored funding to health and
wellness related behavioral incentives.
Funding is sent directly to patients, community health workers and healthcare practitioners;
where the funding is used for preventative care, adherence to medication and therapy,
quality of care delivery and overall population health outcomes.
Our Incentives are distributed in DAI which is a US Dollar stable coin to allow for a more
stable source of income in countries with volatile currencies such as Zimbabwe or Venezuela.
Ribbon provides value to every player within the public healthcare ecosystem.
We offer a personal data broking service to all individuals that empowers them to retain sovereign ownership of their health records and data while earning DAI at every instance where their datasets are traded or monetized in the data economy.
We offer a care quality and performance monitoring system that enables physicians and practitioners to track their ratings while earning incentives for continuous improvements in job performance.
We onboard skilled and previously unemployed Community Health Workers as self-employed Care Partners, to function as intermediaries and patient advocates that process patient-practitioner medical interactions and prescription data.
We offer big Pharmaceuticals access to public health patient-practitioner insights such as drug usage, brand performance, adherence, toxicity, patient-reported outcomes, etc; to help them in planning and business optimization.
Our Platform is positioned as a low cost automated system to help Governments improve health systems efficiency, manage patients, practitioners, prescriptions, inventory and to provide accurate reporting and data analytics across the board.
The Ribbon ecosystem has 4 main features to bring together donors, patients, practitioners and governements.
Ribbon offers a number of key technologies across the healthcare incentives ecosystem.
We offer tokenized incentives (paid in DAI) for any private or public health and wellness program or institution that needs to encourage preventative healthcare, disease screening and testing, quality of care delivery, adherence to therapy, disease suppression and behaviour change.
We utilized skilled and trained community health workers as Care Partners to digitize all
healthcare interactions between patients and healthcare practitioners to create data
provenance that provides context and meaning to health data.
Our Patient Experience of Care (PEC) rating system enables patients to rate their healthcare
experience to help identify areas for continuous improvement on the quality of healthcare
delivery at both healthcare practitioner and healthcare institution level.
Our records system ensures the capturing of accurate health records and associated
prescription data to create a longitudinal health record for every patient.
The Ribbon system generates Real-Time Data Analytics which allow healthcare institutions, practitioners, businesses and decision makers to get health insights, draw conclusions immediately and react to healthcare-related issues.
The Ribbon ecosystem is built on a number of the latest blockchain technologies and primitives. All logic, value transfer and smart contracts run on the Ethereum blockchain.
Our whole architecture and code base is open source! Developer documentation and a wiki are coming soon. Check out our github below.
All value transfer within the ribbon system is governed by audited smart contracts.
Payments made to patients and practitioners are done in the Dai stable coin.
Allocation of funding to specific healthcare programs and other ecosystem wide configurations are governed by a decentralized autonomous organization.
Users in developing countries are not excluded from interacting with the platform through our USSD wallet interface that is built in house.
Ribbon is currently building out a proof of concept Dapp.
2015 to 2017
Concept research and development as a non profit adherence initiative, in collaboration with SA Department of Health, Mylan Pharmaceuticals and a prominent health data analytics firm.
2018
Q1
Ribbon Blockchain incorporated as a privately limited for profit company with a public health blockchain use case.
Q3
Private sector & Big Pharmaceuticals engagement with MOUs. White paper development.
Q2
Development of Incentives demo app and website, and health public sector stakeholder engagements.
Q4
Incentives App MVP launch. Stakeholder exhibit workshops. South Africa National Blockchain Alliance Board membership.
2019
Q1
Initial incentives POC.
Q3
App Iteration. Onboarding patients and practitioners. Incentives Design. Partnership with R2C.
Q2
Proof Of concept Token design. Partnership engagement. Consensys Social Impart Grant.
Q4
Dai-to-Fiat cash off-ramps. International Fiat Donation portal.
2020
Q1
USSD token wallets. DAO program managers
Q3
xDAI integration. Wallet Point of Sale and Inventory management system.
Q2
Extra system functionality, Patient Queuing, push notifications More advanced token modeling.
Q4
Real-time Data Analytics. Begin planning creation of data marketplace.
Ribbon has a experienced, interdisciplinary team who is perfectly positioned to realise the potential of healthcare incentives.
Co Founder and CEO
Advisor and CSO
Co Founder and COO
Tech Advisory
Software Engineer
Software Engineer
Project Manager
Social Media Manager
Ribbon has an experienced advisory team which is perfectly positioned to realise the potential of healthcare incentives.
Software Architect
Blockchain Development
User Experience
Risk, Bioethics & Health Law
Data Science & Engineering
Ribbon has an extensive network of partners and supporting organizations from all around the world.
Some common FAQs spanning incentives, tokens and ecosystem questions. For more information please reach out to us on our email provided below.
Ribbon Incentives are made up of public health programmes that encourage and reward you for living healthier, adhering to taking your medicine and for disease suppression.
Do a national public health check, screening, assessments and other tasks at an accredited DoH Clinic, Hospital, Wellness Centre, Ribbon Wellness Network pharmacy and Doctors.
Incentive Tokens are sent directly to your mobile phone and you can access them via a USSD code on any mobile network. USSD codes to be provided.
Incentive Tokens reflect upon completion of the health interaction, when the Care Partner captures the procedure. The Incentives app has a time limit of 2minutes maximum after interaction is completed and your balance should reflect within 15 minutes maximum.
You can spend your tokens on any partner stores affiliated to the Ribbon Network or withdraw peer to peer from friends, other patients and health workers with fiat cash on hand. We have affiliated Spazas tuck shops and supermarkets located at Clinics and Hospitals that will be part of the Network to withdraw tokens in cash.
Incentivized checks, tests and tasks include:
Practitioners earn 10-15% depending on quality care ratings, for all Incentivized checks, tests and tasks that they presided over:
Ribbon Care Partners earn 15% of all Incentivized checks, tests and tasks that they presided over:
Children can earn tokens from birth, and these are paid into the mother’s mobile phone number. Children above 12 years of age can earn tokens and receive them in their own mobile phone numbers, which have to be affiliated with a family member’s mobile number on the system.
The name Ribbon blockchain is inspired by disease ribbons such as the pink ribbon for cancer, red for HIV and so on. Our knowledge of disease is that some are related and therefore should be understood in themselves individually and per relationships to be able to mitigate against them in future. Our vision, therefore, is to map out these diseases and their relationships on a blockchain that will churn out real time data analytics to enhance decision making when it comes to mitigation against disease. Our incentives app and data capture process is just the backbone of the blockchain we have set out to build.